Security forces stepped up their patrols as protesters, many of the them students, came out in force in Tehran's landmark Azadi Square and at Shahid Beheshtri University, as well as in several regional cities.

The disclosures suggested that the deaths were a consequence of the heightened tensions between Washington and Tehran that have played out since a US drone strike killed a top Iranian general last week.

Updated Jan 10, 2020

Julian Barnes, Eric Schmitt, Anton Troianovski and Natalie Kitroeff

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December 2019

Newly released emails show the White House asked officials to keep quiet about the suspension of US military aid to Ukraine just 90 minutes after Donald Trump leaned on that country's president to investigate former Trump's political rival Joe Biden.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer laid out detailed proposals for the impeachment trial, which he said should start on January 9 and follow a similar structure to the 1999 trial of President Bill Clinton.

Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky met on the sidelines of a four-nation summit in the so-called Normandy format, in which Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany are seeking a solution to the Ukrainian conflict.

More than 10,000 people poured into the nation's capital on the ninth day of protests over police brutality, but what awaited them was a city that no longer felt as if it was being occupied by its own country's military.